Medicines, doctors and hospitals, sentence 6
Too much of a medicine can be harmful, even if the right amount helps.
Who acts: much, right amount · What happens: be, help
This is a sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, right amount), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 harmful | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 medicine | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 medicine | det |
| 5 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 much | nmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 harmful | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 harmful | cop |
| 8 | harmful | harmful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 helps | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 helps | advmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 helps | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 amount | det |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 amount | amod |
| 14 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 helps | nsubj |
| 15 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 harmful | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 harmful | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | much of a medicine | harmful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help a condition, not said to happen | present | the right amount | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.lesson:6.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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